Essential Etiquette for Blogging

A few days ago, Politburo Diktat had a post citing Top Ten Rules of Blogging. In the same spirit I would like to offer, Essential Etiquette for Blogging. These aren't hard and fast rules - just suggestions about what I think makes for good manners in Blogdom.

1. Try visiting another blog besides your own for a change and leave some comments. It's annoying when "it's all about me" on someone's blog.
2. If someone mentions a good post of yours or gives you some link credit, mention how much you appreciate it. You do appreciate it don't you?
3. I've noticed how even some very popular blogs still suck up to the big boys at every opportunity. As far as I'm concerned, Instapundit has had his fifteen minutes. Besides, no one likes a suck-up.
4. If you want to be anonymous for "security" stop making personal references to yourself!
5. If you're going to leave some comments disagreeing with the post, at least have them be logical. While it may be tempting to leave a comment saying, "You're an idiot" - that doesn't really further the discussion.
6. If you're going to run around leaving comments on other's blogs, and especially if they're negative, have the cajones to leave your real email/url. (It saves me the trouble of having to track you down so I can visit my vengeance on you and your household.)
7. I realize there are some pretty cool looking blogs out there. I enjoy them as much as the next guy, but when I'm on a dialup connection it just sucks all the fun out of it if the page takes 10 minutes to load. Try to keep the graphics light. Not all of us have broadband at home.
8. If you want to have links on your blog to people with alternate viewpoints that's fine, but list them accordingly. It will save me from visiting some Deaniac site where Bush is proclaimed as the anti-christ. I get enough of that garbage from the mainstream media.
9. You might want to pace yourself a little with the posts. Don't go for a week without posting anything and then throw up 25 posts and expect that people will read it. Oh, and while you're at it you might want to look into some medication for being Manic Depressive.
10. This last one is especially important to those of you on Blogspot. Get RSS! I don't have the time or energy to visit every single blog on my list each day so if you don't have an RSS feed I'm not going to waste my time. It's a pity to see a good blog and then...no RSS.

Okay, that's part of what I think makes good etiquette. Any questions?